Feb. 22, 1863
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| Missers: Thomson, Hanbay{?}
& Co. London |
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| Gentlemen, |
| This letter will be
brought to you by Captain John M. Robinson of the Engineer Corps of
the Confederate States and a son of your acquaintance and
correspondent, Moncure Robinson of Philadelphia. He goes to Europe
as the Agent of this and six other Virginia Railroad companies, of
one of which -- the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Company, he has
for several years been Superintendent -- to purchase and import such
railroad supplies as are needed for these railroads and during the existence
of the blockade cannot be otherwise obtained. |
| He enjoys the fullest confidence
of the companies who have committed their briefings and the
pecuniary means for its transaction to his care and discretion of
the Confederate Government from whose service he is detailed
temporarily only for this special duty and I may add of all who know
him here. {true copy} |
| Any advice, assistance or
facilities you may extend to him in furtherance of the objects of
his mission will be gratefully remembered and cheerfully
reciprocated by those for whom it is undertaken. He will be fully
informed as to the views of this company touching the payment of its
obligation to British bondholders and stockholders and in the event
that your |
| {The rest of the
letter is missing from the letterbook, but it would have been signed
by P. V. Daniels, Jr., President of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
& Potomac Railroad} |
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